1 December 2022 ESPC22 | In-person: Copenhagen, Denmark
Don’t let Microsoft 365 Governance and Compliance be a roll of the dice.
No matter the size of your business, data protection and compliance is critical.
1. Data is exploding
2. Data regulations are increasing around the world
3. Everyone is at risk of a data breach
Yet data security and compliance can feel overwhelming.
Let me show you how the Microsoft 365 Governance, Risk, and Compliance maturity model can help you reduce risk and improve compliance effectiveness by building a strategy for protecting and managing sensitive and business-critical data.
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12 November 2022: Viva Explorers Community Day | In-person: Manchester United Kingdom
Microsoft Viva governance and compliance implications
This session demystifies security & compliance in Microsoft Viva to help you understand the following:
- What are the Viva modules
- How Microsoft ensures security & compliance in Microsoft Viva
- Why governance is essential
- Why employee adoption & sponsor communications are critical
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11 November 2022: M365 Chicago – A Salute to Services! | Online event
Implementing Microsoft Teams lifecycle governance to stop Team sprawl.
Microsoft Teams empowers users to collaborate. However, without governance, it is easy for organizations to create thousands of Teams sites with no clear ownership and no lifecycle. This uncontrolled growth can quickly turn into sprawl, resulting in an IT admin headache to manage and leading to user confusion and dissatisfaction as they struggle to identify which is the correct team to use.
This session will discuss best practices on how to implement Teams lifecycle management to manage your teams through the following stages:
1. Teams creation
2. Ongoing management
3. End of life
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog, Implementing Microsoft Teams governance to stop Teams sprawl.
21 October 2022: Virtual M365 Friday Cincinnati | Online event
Implementing Microsoft Teams Lifecycle Governance to Stop Team Sprawl.
Microsoft Teams empowers users to collaborate. However, without governance, it is easy for organizations to create thousands of Teams sites with no clear ownership and no lifecycle. This uncontrolled growth can quickly turn into sprawl, resulting in an IT admin headache to manage and leading to user confusion and dissatisfaction as they struggle to identify which is the correct team to use.
This session will discuss best practices on how to implement Teams lifecycle management to manage your teams through the following stages:
1. Teams creation
2. Ongoing management
3. End of life
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog, Implementing Microsoft Teams governance to stop Teams sprawl.
15 October 2022: South Coast Summit | In-person: Southampton United Kingdom
Women In Tech Roundtable hosted by Microsoft Spotlight Podcast
The Microsoft Spotlight Podcast highlights the importance of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion within the Microsoft Community.
In this session will talk with a number of high profile Women In Tech about their journey into the world of IT and how as a community we can engage more women to get involved with the IT industry.
This will provide insight into the challenges our panel has faced and how they manage to carve out a successful career in IT, the goals that they have set for themselves and how we can get women in technical or non-technical roles throughout the industry.
5 October 2022: CollabDays Bletchley Park 2022 – October edition | In-person event United Kingdom
Governance, Risk and Compliance and you – Microsoft Purview and beyond | Simon Hudson & Nikki Chapple
Governance, Risk and Compliance; it’s not nice to have, It’s The Law. Every organisation needs to pay attention to GRC, but not everyone has the tools, expertise or strategy. Microsoft Purview is a surprisingly capable tool in your organisation’s GRC tool bag when combined with a broad & competent approach. This session will provide: – an overview of GRC obligations and approaches – what’s in Purview – pragmatic approaches to elevating your Compliance Score – wider technical and business thinking for de-risking your operations and organisation – thoughts on using the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 GRC Competency to set your objectives.
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28 September 2022: Teams10X | Online event
Using Power Automate to Manage Teams evergreen change
Keeping up to date with the hundreds of changes in Microsoft 365 and Teams can be hard, especially when multiple stakeholders are involved.
This session will demonstrate how to use Power Automate to enhance the standard Microsoft 365 Message Center sync to Planner. See how Power Automate can save you time by automatically:
1. Adding labels to categorize the changes
2. Assigning tasks to groups of users
3. Add standard checklists to allow you to quickly view progress
4. Notify stakeholders of up coming changes
5. Why multiple Planner Boards are not possible
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog How to manage Microsoft 365 evergreen change using Power Automate.
15 September 2022 ESPC 22 Microsoft Teams Week | Online event
Create a Simple Teams Creation Workflow using Power Automate
Use Lists and Power Automate to build a Team creation process to govern the creation of Teams.
This practical demonstration will show you how to enhance the standard Teams creation process by:
– using your own tailored Teams naming convention
– adding an approval step
– stopping duplicate Team names
– requiring multiple owners
– adding sensitivity label to allow or block guests and external sharing.
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog post: Create a simple Teams creation workflow using Power Automate.
11 July 2022: MN Microsoft 365 User Group (mn365.org) | Online event
Implementing Microsoft Teams lifecycle governance to stop Team sprawl
Deep dive into the pragmatic ways to manage Microsoft Team sprawl.
Microsoft Teams has become crucial in supporting remote and hybrid working, allowing users to work, collaborate, and learn from any location and any device.
However, for many organizations, the move to Microsoft Teams was in a direct response to the COVID -19 pandemic. Often the result was a tactical rather than a strategic deployment of Teams.
This has resulted in the uncontrolled growth of Teams. Leading to unforeseen challenges such as Team sprawl, stale content, duplicate content and general user confusion. This in turn increases the risks of data overexposure and the use of shadow IT by dissatisfied users.
In this session, I will look at.
-Why does Teams sprawl occur?
-What are the biggest risks of Teams sprawl?
-Why does governance need to extend beyond technology?
-How to mitigate the risk of Team sprawl through managing your workload and content lifecycle.
Watch the event recording.
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog Implementing Microsoft Teams governance to stop Teams sprawl.
30 June 2022 Commverse | In-person, Mercedes-Benz World, UK
Why you need to manage Microsoft Teams sprawl
Microsoft Teams has become crucial in supporting remote and hybrid working, allowing users to work, collaborate, and learn from any location and any device.
However, for many organizations, the move to Microsoft Teams was in direct response to the COVID -19 pandemic. Often the result was a tactical rather than a strategic deployment of Teams.
This has resulted in the uncontrolled growth of Teams. Leading to unforeseen challenges such as Team sprawl, stale content, duplicate content and general user confusion. This in turn increases the risks of data overexposure and the use of shadow IT by dissatisfied users.
In this session, I will look at.
- Why does Teams sprawl occur?
- What are the biggest risks of Teams sprawl?
- Why does governance need to extend beyond the technology?
- How to mitigate the risk of Team sprawl through managing your workload and content lifecycle.
Watch the event recording.
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog post: Implementing Microsoft Teams governance to stop Teams sprawl.
23 June 2022: Expert Roundtable | 1-Day Virtual Conference
Securing Access to and Data in Microsoft 365 at GET-IT Microsoft Cloud Security and Compliance
I am joining Peter Rising Head of Practice – Security, Compliance & Identity @ CPS; Rod Trent, Cloud Security Advocate at Microsoft and Graham Hosking, Director of Advisory Sales EMEA at Lighthouse to discuss all those important security and compliance questions about Microsoft 365.
Watch the event recording GET-IT Microsoft Cloud Security and Compliance 1-Day Virtual Conference – Petri IT Knowledgebase
5 May 2022: Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 | Online event
Build a Teams creation workflow using Power Automate
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon is a free, online, 60-hour event happening May 4-6, 2022. They will have content going the whole time with speakers from around the globe. Topics are Microsoft 365, including Azure. Read more
My session: Use Lists and Power Automate to build a Team creation process to govern the creation of Teams. Build on the standard process to require a justification, an approval step, add multiple owners and apply your own naming standard.
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog post: Create a simple Teams creation workflow using Power Automate.
29 April 2022: Guest on Cloud Conversations | Podcast
Watch my guest appearance on the Cloud Conversations podcast. I join Kat and Azure in this episode to talk about… What is Teams sprawl, How tech has changed over 30 years, Speaking and networking events & Music
29 April 2022: Minnesota Microsoft 365 User group | Online event
Using Power Automate to manage Microsoft Teams evergreen change
Keeping up to date with the hundreds of changes in Microsoft 365 and Teams can be hard especially when multiple stakeholders are involved.
This session will demonstrate how you can use Power Automate to enhance the standard Microsoft 365 Message Center sync to Planner. See how Power Automate can save you time by automatically:
1. Adding labels to categorize the changes
2. Assigning tasks to groups of users
3. Add standard checklists to allow you to quickly view progress
4. Notify stakeholders of upcoming changes
5. Why multiple Planner Boards are not possible
About The Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group
The Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group was started in 2017 to provide a forum for sharing Microsoft ideas and questions with peers. While there are other user groups in the area that may touch on Microsoft 365, this group is dedicated to the discussion of Microsoft 365 features. Read more
Watch the event recording.
View my session slides.
Read the associated blog post: How to manage Microsoft 365 evergreen change using Power Automate.
6 April 2022: Teams10X Virtual Summit | Online event
Implementing Microsoft Teams lifecycle governance to stop Team sprawl
Microsoft Teams empowers users to collaborate. However without governance it is easy for organizations to create thousands of Teams sites with no clear ownership and no lifecycle. This uncontrolled growth can quickly turn into sprawl resulting in an IT admin headache to manage and lead to user confusion and dissatisfaction as they struggle to identify which is the correct team to use.
This session will discuss best practices on how to implement Teams lifecycle management to manage your teams through the following stages:
1. Teams creation
2. Ongoing management
3. End of life
View my session slides.
Read my associated blog post: Implementing Microsoft Teams governance to stop Teams sprawl.
15 March 2022: Jonnychipz Schooled in Podcast – Microsoft Teams Governance to Halt the Sprawl with Nikki Chapple | Podcast
Watch my guest appearance on Jonnychipz Schooled in Podcast where I discuss all things Microsoft Teams Governance.
8 March 2022: Microsoft Spotlight Episode 28 – Nikki Chapple | Podcast
Watch my guest appearance on the Microsoft Spotlight podcast where I discuss my career in IT, Microsoft 365 and women in tech.
17 February 2022: Canadian Cloud Summit 202 | Online event
Build a Teams creation workflow using Power Automate
Use Lists and Power Automate to build a Team creation process to govern the creation of Teams. Build on the standard process to require a justification, an approval step, add multiple owners and apply your own naming standard.
Watch the recording, view my session slides and read the associated blog post: Create a simple Teams creation workflow using Power Automate.
16 February 2022: Microsoft 365 UK (M365UK) User Group: How to stop ownerless Teams using Power Automate | Online event
Demonstrating how to build a Power Automate Flow to automate the process of reassigning Teams & Groups ownership when a Team or Group owner leaves the organization. Therefore reducing the number of ownerless Teams & Groups and therefore sprawl.
Watch the video and read the associated blog post: How to use Power Automate to manage Ownerless Teams (& Groups).
15 February 2022: MM4M365 Practitioners: Maturity Model for Governance Risk and Compliance | Online event
Exploring the value and use of the new Microsoft 365 Maturity Model for Governance Risk and compliance competency.
Organizations face increasing complexity and change in regulatory environments, calling for a more structured approach for managing Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC).
The Governance, Risk, and Compliance Competency is focused on helping an organization reduce risk and improve compliance effectiveness by implementing a framework for compliance and risk management.
Watch the event recording or view my session slides.
28 January 2022: TeamsCommunityDay 2022 Cologne and central: How to stop ownerless Teams using Power Automate | Online event
Demonstrating how to build a Power Automate Flow to automate the process of reassigning Team ownership when a Team owner leaves the organization. Therefore reducing the number of ownerless Teams and sprawl.
Associate blog post : How to use Power Automate to manage Ownerless Teams (& Groups)
14 January 2022: M365 Below in Chicago!: Using Power Automate to help you keep up to date with Microsoft 365 evergreen change | Online event
Demonstrating how to use Power Automate to enhance the standard Microsoft 365 Message Center sync to Planner. See how Power Automate can save you time by automatically:
1. Adding labels to categorize the changes
2. Create multiple Planner Boards is functionality managed by multiple teams
3. Assigning tasks to groups of users
4. Add standard checklists to allow you to quickly view progress
5. Notify stakeholders of upcoming changes
Associated blog post How to manage Microsoft 365 evergreen change using Power Automate
8 January 2022: M365 Saturday Ahmedbad: Using Power Automate to help you keep up to date with Microsoft 365 evergreen change. Online event
Associated blog post How to manage Microsoft 365 evergreen change using Power Automate